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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Then Peter opened his month and said,
“Os a truth I perceive that God is no re
specter of persons; but in every nation
he that feareth Him and worketh right
eousness is accepted with Him.—The Acts
of the Apostles 10:34.
Nobel Prizes y
(“Tr“GIE recent award of Nobel prizes makes
it interesting to recall the origin of
the Nobel Foundation, instituted by Dr.
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite,
twenty-eight years ago..
Doctor Nobel set aside the greater part of
the fortune brought him by his invention, •
nearly ten million doljhrs, as a Nobel Prize j
fund, the annual interest of which he direct
ed to be divided into five equal parts with
which to reward the persons who, in the
year prior to the reward, had rendered hu
manity "the greatest service” in the realm
of science (physics, chemistry and medicine),
idealistic literature, and in the cause of in
ternational peace and the suppression or re
duction of Standing armies.
Theorizes have jjone-all over the world:
no less than twenty countries being repre
sented in the prize lists.
It is significant, too, to note that Germany
stands at the top with twenty-one science
prizes and four literary prizes; France takes
second place, with a total of nineteen
awards: eleven for science, four for litera
ture and four peace prizes; while third place
is taken by Great Britain, with twelve
science, one literature and one peace, a total
of fourteen.
These things are interesting to consider at
this* time when any encouragement of the
arts or sciences, or any occupation other
than war, is What the world most needs. I
Tlie Dusty
TV 7 [IILE archaeologists were pottering
\A/ Qbout in the tomb of Tut-ankh-amen
: for carvings and jewels that deco-
rated the race in his day, one of them gath
ered a few handfuls of dusty wheat which
had. been placed nearby—after a custom still
prevailing in China, only in the case of a
departed Chinaman rice is used. No great
excitement was manifested over the discov
ery of this wheat; such fifids have been com
mon. BuQnough interest was developed to
bring about an experimental planting in the
wheat lands of Hungary, with the result that
a harvest of exceptional quality was secured.
The survival of the germ life in this an
cient grave over a lapse of three or four
thousand years strikingly attests the persist
en'ey of nature’s reproductive principle and
the survival of form. Here in the tomb of
departed grandeur, surrounded by earthly
riches, lay these few handfuls of grain—cast
in, doubtless, at the last moment as symbols
of\ resurrection, yet worth more, possibly,
than all the relics of Egypt’s tombs. Manu
scripts from the tomb of a rich planter found
nearby, revealed that wheat was the staple
product of the adjacent lands. Possibly it
was the "corn’’ that Joseph’s brethren sought
in their pilgrimage, and the real source of j
Egypt’s wealth. The kings died; the sands i
drifted over Egypt and her glories gone. The :
blindness that turned the faces of her great
men to black magic and idolatry shut away
from the minds of her wise men, the true
remeay against the encroaching desert, and
left them, too, the prey of armed hosts who
sought the conquest of the empire. Lost to
the world was the fine knowledge of her
scientists; the men who planned the pyra
mids; who mapped the heavens, named the
stars and set up the calendar year. All of
real worth that survived was—a handful of
dusty wheat.
And not Egypt alone, but Babylon, Assyria,
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOUXIAL
Persia and all that vast civilization built up
through thousands of years, perished and
sank away benieath the soil, leaving accessible
here and there an Inscription, a carving, a
king’s head and the foot of a queen. "Vanity,
vanity, all is vanity!” And we who occupy j
the stage today are digging, digging, digging |
through the dead lands to learn the story of j
•the past. z ■
But not in the tomb of King Tut alone i
was found the imperishable principle of life I
and the resurrection brought over from the I
' lost nations. In our Old Testament, in the |
maxims of Bhudda, in the writings of Con- !
fucius, and in the Talmud and Koran were '
hidden away the germs of immortality from '
the abandoned treasures of the vanished ,
ages, and out of these a new civilization j
| arose. The brought-over wheat was not lost; j
some of it fell by the wayside, sprouted and 1
died, but other grains multiplied a thousand.)
fold, and flowered into a harvest that blesses
the world. Persia, Assyria, Egypt and all
the desolate lands have not perished utterly.
Today, blessed by the immortal truths from
the tombs of God’s servants the prophets, 1
the inspired ones, they are entering into an
era whose sun is the sun of liberty, whose
king is knowledge and whose God is love.
The same day that brought to the west
the lesson of .the dusty wheat brought also
the news that the harem was a thing of the !
past and the universities of the East were
full of unveiled women, seeking light.
Herbert and His Brethren
IT is to be hoped that Secretary Herbert
Hoover will have more success than the
Democrats in bringing his Republican
brethren to accept a certain economic truth
which he proclaimed at the American Marine
Congress. "It seems worth repeating at
times,” said he, "that our international trade
is one of the very foundations of our stand
ard of living; that our whole fabric.of living
and comfort is dependent upon the import
of commodities which we do not and can not
ourselves produce—tin, rubber, coffee and a
score of others; further, in the main the
amount of these commodities which we can
import will depend upon the volume we ex
port. Moreover, we need a constant expan
sion of our export markets to give stability
to our internal production by a wider range x
of customers.”
K was to these principles of economics that
the Democrats of Congress appealed in ef
forts to ward off the Fqrdney-McCumber
tariff —and against these very principles that
the Republican majority stood embattled.
They contrived import duties for the benefit
of favored groups, as if there were no inter
national currents of trade in which America’s
common interests are concerned; as if it were
possible to rear a frowning tariff wall to dis
courage others from selling to us, without at
the same time discouraging them from buy
ing from us. If Secretary Hoover can impart
this truth to the Republican powers that be,
so that they will become not only hearers of
it, but doers as well, he will have rendered j
an inestimable service alike to his party and
to his country.
QUIZ
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<’et the answer to any question puzzling
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ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. How many huts did the Y. M. C. A.
maintain overseas? H. C.
A. Overseas the "Y” maintained more than
J ,900 huts and tents for the use of the A.
E. F. The organization furnished 400 mil
lion sheets of letter paper, 200 million en
velopes and 16 million post cards-to the
boys. *
Q. Are the names of the minute men of
the Revolution contained in any one book?
B. P. W. ,
A. The names are not compiled in book
form. Most of the town records of Massa
chusetts contain records of these men.
Q. Which is larger, British America or the
United States and her possessions? D. V. H.
A. British America, which consists of Can
ada, Newfoundland and a number of islands,
has an area of 3,750,000 square miles while
the total area of the United States and its
possessions is 3,743,446 square miles. Thus
Britain haS- a little more territory but much
■of it is so far north as to be of compara
tively little value. •
Q. What becomes of bats in winter? J. B
A. Bats are absent from the coldest parts J
of the world and are most numerous in the *
eastern tropics. They are characteristically j
tropical. In rather cold climates, such as i
that of Canada, some species have acquired a i
habit of migration, going south.
Q. What is the significance of the word |
"Amen,” used at the end of prayers and at !
the end of some verses in the Bible? S. N. F. I
A. There are numerous translations of this I
word. The one which is generally accepted i
is that it means "So be it.”
Q. How many congressional medals were’!
i issued in the great Avar? T. H. S.
A. The adjutant general’s office says that
there have been ninety awards of the con
gressional medal of honor to officers and I
enlisted men in the United States and the i
I marine corps for services during tlite World ;
I war. One award was made to*the unknown
j soldier of each of th-e following nations: [
! Great Britain, Belgium, France, Italy and j
Rumania.
Q. Who said that a truth-teller can be as ■
bad as a trained liar? K. L. G.
A. In his work on "The Quintessence of |
Ibsenism,” G. B. Shaw says that the thesis I
of Ibsen’s "Wild Duck” is "that a truth-teller
who cannot hold his tongue on occasion may
do as much mischief as a whole university!
full Os trained liars.”
Q. What language is more widely spoken 1
in South America—Spanish or Portuguese?
M. D. C.
A. Spanish is spoken in all South Ameri
can countries except Brazil, so it may be
said to be more widely spoken than PortUr 1
guese, the tongue of the Brazilians. Brazil, i
however, has a population equal to that of i
the rest of the continent and Portuguese is ;
spoken by as many South Americans as '
Spanish is. I
FLOWING GOLD
BY REX BE AC IL
CHAPTER XVII
Introduced to~a Lady
BUDDY BRISKOW had difficulty in get- <
ting out of the valley on his way for
a doctor, for never had the roads been
like this. He drove recklessly; where neces-
[ sary ho disregarded fences and pushed across
pastures that wore hub deep; he even burst
through occasional thickets, in defiance of
I axle and tire. He drowned his motor finally
| in fording a roily stream and abandoned the
I car.
I He came into Ranger that afternoon, on
I the back of a truck horse that he had lior-
I rowed —without the owner’s consent. For a
| time it seemed that, if he got a doctor at all
| he would have to follow a similar procedure,
I but the Briskow name was powerful; and
I Buddy talked in big figures, so eventually he
i set. out on the return journey.—this time in a
| springless freight wagon drawn by the stout
[ ost team in town. A medical man wag cn the
seat beside him.
It AVas after midnight 'When Buddy and his
I miserable companion gaiued the comparatively
I easy going of the last ridge, that flinty range
beyond which lay the Briskow -farm.
Buddy stopped at a drilling camp where
lights showed the occupants to be astir, and
there he received confirmation of his* fears.
The flats beyond were inundated to a depth
rendering travel impossible, and although
some of the men stationed out there had
managed to work their way back, others were,
I for the time being, hopelessly cut off.
“I guess I can swim, if I try. Feller can
do ’most anything if he has to. How about
you, Doc?” Buddy turned to his traveling
companion.
-The latter shook his head positively. “You’re
crazy, Briskow, we’d probably drown. If we
didn’t, we’d be burned alive when that loose
oil catches fire.”
Buddy cursed furiously and lurched toward
the door. It took force to restrain him from
going.
The rain ceased with the passing of the
electrical storm, but the late hours of the
night were thick and the fires continued to
burn. It seemed as if morning would never
come.
With the first light Buddy mounted one
of his horses, and, regardless of admonitions,
set out. In miles he had no great distance
to go; nevertheless, it was midday before he
came in sight of his father’s unpainted farm
house, and when he dismounted at the front
porch he fell rather than walked through the
door.
. Even after he had been helped into the
kitchen and his wet clothes had been stripped
from him, he could tell little about his trip,
but hot food and drink brought him around
and then, indeed, his story- was one that deep
ly touched the elder man.
Already the waters bad ceased to rise, but
Buddy's difficulty in getting through proved
the folly of attempting to escape for the time
being; his horse had been forced to swim
with him in more than one place- in others
he had waded waist deep, stumbling through
thickets, hauling the animal after him by
main strength. There was nothing to do, it
seemed, but await a subsidence of the flood.
Then, too, the boy was half dead for sleep.
Late that evening, after Allie had gone to
bed. Gray had a long talk with his young
friend, during which ho told him more about
his affairs than he had made known even to
Roswell, the banker.
Buddy listened av h the cjosest attention.
He drew a deep breath at last and said: “I
know you was in deep, but I thought it whs
just your way. Now I know it was Nelson’s
crew that fired our gasser.”
Gray continued the conversation.
“Do you \think your father would trust
me? Do you think he'd go it blind on mv
say-so?”
“If he won’t I will, I got monev. So's
Allie.”
Gray declined this offer with a positive
shake of the_head. “It must appeal to him
on its merits. I wouldn't permit you to go
contrary to his judgment.”
■‘.Judgment? What’s Pa’s judgment worth?
He knows it’s no good, an’ so do we. Every
body’s tryin’ to do him up but you; you’re
the only one he trusts. An’ the same fiere.
Here’s my .bank roll—you can shoot the whole
piece, I don t care if it never comes back.
Tryin’ to get you killed! An' spoilrti’ a well
on me!”
“Thank you, Buddy! You—make me slow
to trust my own judgment. I—l seem to be
developing a conscience. But I’m sure this
is the thing to do, for you and your' father,
as well as for nm. People can’t stand still;’
they must go forward. The Briskow fortune
must grow or it will crumble.”
I dunno il we ve got as much in us as
you seem to think,” the boy said, doubtfully.
Gray ’Smiled. “You have common sense, at
least, ami that’s something you can’t get in
school. .Men wear smooth from contact wilh
one another, and it is time you got in touch
with something bigger than mere drilling. If
you’ve willing, I’ll take you to Wichita Falls
witli me.”
"Willing?” Buddy’s eyes sparkled. Guiltily
he confessed: “It's been pretty—lonesome
out here with the scorpions. But I wanted
to show you I could make good.”
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QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
Smithers was haunted. Not. by the con
ventional ghost, but by an ordinary common
or garden straw hat. Quite recently he
moved to- another house, and decided that an
old straw hat he possessed was no longer of
any use to him, and, accordingly, he threw
it into a corner with some other rubbish.
Someone thoughtfully rescued it for him,
j and the next day he, was only just in time
■ to prevent it packed, with his other
clothes. Again he put it on the rubbish
heap, telling every one that he did not want
■ it any more.
| Imagine Smithers’ annoyance when, on un
l packing, the straw hat again turned up
j among a lifter of odds and eijds.
Thoroughly roused and annoyed, Smithers
i grabbed a flatiron and with a mighty blow
; smashed the hat flat. Just then the maid
appeared.
I “Please, sir,” she said, timidly, "that is
the gas man’s hat.”
I .Sir Frederick Bridge,•emeritus organist of
, Westminister abbey, records an incident
: which occurred in connection with an auto
i matic piano to which he was invited to
listen. It played one or two rolls quite well
i ' least, everj’body was able to identifv
the tunes without difficulty. “But one piece
| puzzled us greatly. The rest of the small
I audience sat round with that rapt attention
I peculiar to people who are listening to clas
| sical music—particularly if they do not un
i derstand it. I whispered to the lady on' my
I left: ‘What is it playing?’ ‘Bach’s fugue
in G. minor,’ she whispered back. A few
j minutes later we discovered that the roll
| had been put in the wrong way and that it
was being played backward.”
MUSINGS OF ABE MARTIN
Th’ worst draw back t’ havin’ a reputation
fer bein’ close mouthed is that so much is
i expected of ns when we do cut loose. O’
. course farmin’ hain’t what it might be. but
! folks that live out in th’ country ought t’
be glad they hain’t steppin’ on discarded
I chewin’ gum all th’ time.
OLD-TIME RELIGION
BY BISHOP W. A. CANDLER
THE WAY OF DEATH TO NATIONS (
MUSSOLINI, the Italian dictator, • who t
rules with a resolute hand both the
king and the people of Italy, is re- t
ported to have said recently, "I get many’
! letters and petitions from people in Italy, j
’ They ask for bridges, roads and subsidies, ;
but never for liberty.” I f
•I. | i
| This is a sad statement, if indeed it may ; ,
I not be called an alarming one. It reveals a v
j deterioration of moral life of the most dis- j I
1 tressing character. A nation is dying when ‘
it ceases to care for liberty, and is enamoured , <.
of mere things. i i
War is always demoralizing, and often its j j
' after-effects are more demoralizing and dan- , .
gcrous to the moral life of a people than ; i
were the immediate results of the armed : 1
- conflict.
: i Military rule suspends the laws of civil : ‘
i government and restricts the sphere of the '
’ j freedom of individuals. At first it is galling ■
! to men, but eventually it becomes something : ■
' | more than tolerable. They endure it, . and ■
' then begin to enjoy it. To those in authority I ;
I i over them they look for both rule and rations.
Thus they become accustomed to look to their
1 rulers for everything, and in process of time
) they become no m’ore than parts of a huge
I ! oicce of deadly machinery.
When tlie war has passed, and peace has
’ come, these habits of submission are carried
lack by many, if not most, of thorn into civil 1
1 ife. They have lost their sensitive regard
- i for their own rights and for the rights of ;
others. Government has attained a sort of I
, deification of power in their minds, and from
> it they seek all they’ desire and on it they
! depend for whatever they wish. It is every
thing to them, and the individual is, reduced
t<Fn xt to nothing. He exists for the govern-'
ment, and not the government for him. Os j
course, in such a state of mind the returned j
. soldier wants a strong government, Thus wars
. make way for dictators and tyrants with
i paternalism aS their method of ruling.
Following wars there are inevitable desola
! tions. During the continuance of such con-
> ' flicts the most productive classes are drawn ;
' ! away from productive industry into destruc- j
tive efforts. At. the same time the accumu-
; i lated fruits of human energy are consumed,
-land so poverty and destitution pass over the
; ■ land with swift advance.
; When the conflict is over the work of
restoratioli is exceedingly onerous, and the
i strength of the bearers of the burden' of
I restoration is greatly impaired.
j In such a case the need of material things
[ I bulks large in the eyes of the people, and
- I the nobler things of life seem so .visionary
I and impracticable that they fall out of pop
ular consideration. It is then bridges,
I ! roads and bonuses are desired above liberty
. I and all the precious things which make I
earthly life charming and desirable. With- ■
J out physical satisfactions life seems to the
| degraded people not worth living This I
- Lseems to be the state of things in Italy, if
I Mussolini’s words may be trusted.
j The people who make up the congested
’ , population of urban centers especially fall
, ! easy victims to this debasing materialism,
'•and begin to cry to their paternalistic mas-
i ters for “bread and games. ’
! i From these urban centers the evil con
{ tagion spreads rapidly to the rural districts,
land at length the entire population clam-I
i ors for a servile paternalism which is ac- I
I cepted as the best form of government. ’
! ! Liberty is drowned in the public trough filled j
i with swill from the public treasury. Then
I the paternalistic lords over the subservient j
I population devise ingenious schemes of tax- ,
ation in order to get subsidies with which I
to bribe the people with funds skillfully
extracted from their own pockets. The in-
’ iquitous process finally runs to revolution
and ruin. So it did in ancient Ronle, and
so it is doing in modern Rome, and in the j
1 | larger part of the Continent of Europe.
’ j Commenting upon the statement made I
i ' by Mussolini, the Times-Picayune, of New
■ ' Orleans, points out most clearly and cogent- i
’i ly the course of such foul currents. The I
! j editor says:
■ j “It was said long ago that a benevolent ,
' I and intelligent despotism is the ‘best gov- I
■ I ernment in the world, in practical benefits I
I' to people.’ Unhappily, it is universal ex- |
perience that despotism becomes drunk with |
power, loses intelligence, and thereafter
’ SENTIMENT AND SLEEP
By (I. Addington Bruce
ONE of the most interesting of psycholog- •
ical phenomena is the relation between
sentiment and sleep. It. is more subtle I
t • and significant than is commonly appreciated. I
J ; Everybody, of course, is aware of the pbw
t I erful influence exercised by sentiments of
f i anxiety in the way of sleep prevention. Let I
5 I a man bo worried over anything and sleep
| will forthwith become increasingly difficult to I
• ! him. If he does sleep he is almost certain to !
i be disturbed by unpleasant dreams, and at |
1 best will sleep fitfully.
It also is well known that, in the case of
many people, the sentiment of eager expecta
' tion is a potent preventative of sleep.
Children are hot the only ones who sleep
poorly on the eve of an excursion or some
other to which they look forward
I with keen anticipation. There are plenty of
- i adults whose sleep is similarly affected -when
1 i some pleasure is in prospect.
! ! Instead of settling down quietly to sleep
f, i they busy themselves with castle-building.
v | They review in detail the thing they expect to
I do, and the delight they expect to experience
I from the doing of it. Or if, being less ex- !
R I citable, they do fall asleep at their accustomed ’
r time, it will be to have an early awakening,
i as though the desire to be up and off for t-he
t: impending pleasure served as an inner alarm-
i clock to arouse them.
For that matter, various other sentiments
11 j likewise haVe an alarm clock significance. :
I Particularly is this true of the sentiment of
! du tv.
*I r ‘
j There are people who literally can com-.
mand themselves to awake at an appointed
s time, with full assurance that when that time
comes they will awake. The time may vary !
from day to day. No matter. When it arrives
‘ it will find these self-controlled sleepers re
-1 . sponsive to its coming. >
’ | Study their psychic make-up and you will 1
” I discover that mostly they are persons finely !
v I sensitive to the demands of duty. There,
e ' are other ways, too, in which the sehtiment
1 of duty operates to influence sleep.
i Tube, for example, fthe case of a nurse
- whose task it is to care single-handed for
.- j some sorely stricken patient. The nurse, be
s i ing human, must sleep, and when she does
e i have opportunity to sleep, she sleeps pro
! i foundlv.
I Loud talking, noises from outside, disturb
L i her sleep not at all, unless it be to start her ;
| dreaming. But if she is a nurse in -whom the
Lsentiment is strong, any ominous distress-sig-'
nal, however slight, from the patient near
1 i ■whom she is sleeping will rouse her instantly.
, Sentiments of affection act in the same
t way. A sleeping mother, deaf to all other
’ ! sounds, is awakened from her sleep by the
I I faintest call from her child in its crib. In 1
1 that same moment she knows why she has
THURSDAY, DECEMBErf 18, 1028.
ceases to be ‘good’ in any sense of the
term.
"City ‘ring government’ is a modern adap
tation of the old ‘Qespotism’ idea, incul
cated by the ‘tyrants’ of ancient Greece, .
applied by the arstocratic oligarchies of
medieval Italy.
“They know, like Mussolini, that people
ordinarily are interested, not in what they
render to government, but in what they
get out of it. If the voters get gdod streets,
attractive parks, convenient transportation,
pride-tickling public v buildings, good water,
a city that has the seeming of booming
progress and opulence in which they may
share—they are usually content, and worry
not about the source of the blessings, nor
scan too captiously the tax bills they pay.
And, too, taxpayers are not usually a voting
majority. Tammany works on that princi
ple, and gets away with it, year after year,
only rarely becoming fat-headed and futile
and suffering defeat.” i
While these conditions threaten the civ- •
Hization of the world, men who have eyes to '
see and voices to speak the truth are needed I
to proclaim with renewed power the old and ■
indispensable doctrine that “man shall not ;
live by bread alone.”
This divine teaching is fundamental to
the welfare of men and nations. Without
its recognition they perish. Materialism suf
focates their moral life.
Man is more than a mere animal, and
life is more than luxuries with which to
indulge physical appetites and serve ma
terial ends. k
In our country, in which there is not
found the desolation and destitution preva
lent throughout the Continent of Europe,
this truth, -which Moses spoke and Christ
repeated with divine authority and emphasis,
needs to be preached with compelling force.
Our people are imperiling their patirimony
of liberty and good government by their
riotous living. Law is set aside under the
feeblest and most ignoble temptations to self
indulgence. Multiplied thousands have come
to believe, and to act on the belief, that
nothing is sacred that stands between them
and their self-gratifications. Homes may be
pulled clown ruthlessly, and laws nullified
with impunity. The Sabbath is profaned and
the week days polluted by the mad pur
suit of pleasure. Educational institutions,
maintained at great cost, are perverted from
the high ends of culture to the base uses of
games. Churches even are invaded by stroll
ing fun-makers and godless players in order
to make diversions for faithless pleasure
lovers.
This evil way leads to speedy destruc
tion. It ends at Vast in the overthrow of
free government and the corruption of re
ligion.
When Israel sat down to eat and drink
and rose up to play, the Hebrew people fell
into wretched idolatry and gross immorality.
(Exodus xxxii:6.) Then it was they made
the>golden caif and worshiped it, “and sacri
ficed. theretinto.” So all nations that have
run to ruin have perished by suicidal acts of
self-corruption. Not one has died by any
hand but its own.
From such a doom nothing can save the
American Republic but unfeigned repentance
and an humble return to God.
False prophets may delude them with
specious Reclamations about pessimism and
optimism. That brood, like vultures, has al
ways circled above the heads of decadent na
tions who were approaching death.
These are they who fondly cry, “God is in
his heaven; all is well with his world.” God
tvas in his heaven when the flood was com
ing and the antediluvian optimists were de
riding Noah as a pessimist. God was in
his heavens when the sinners of Sodom
mocked righteous Lot. Because God was in
his heaven the flood came and the fire fell.
Because God is in his heaven overwhelming
judgments fall on sinful men who defy Him
and wicked nations who forget Him.
The righteous God in heaven will not per
mit sin to run riotously in the earth forever.
All his holy power is engaged to cure or
destroy it.
Solomon, the wisest of men, uttered words
i which we will do well to heed: “Because
| sentence against an evil work is not executed
speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of
mon is fully set in'them to do evil. Though
a w sinner do evil an hundred times, yet surely
I know tliat it shall be well with them that
tear God, which fear before Him; but it
shall not be well wjth the wicked, neither
■ shall he prolong his days, .which are a shad
i ow, because he feareth not before God.”
(Ecclesiastes viii: 11-12.)
REASONS EOR OPTIMISM
By Dr. Trank Crane
I WILL state my belief in the future.
ft is not a blind creed formed only
from my desires and hopes. It is a con
i viction based upon the past development of
the race, upon its present condition and upon
i the tendencies which 1 see in'vigorous oper
ation in the world. ,
It is a belief based not upon revelation
nor any authority. It is based upon evolu-
I tion, history and observation.
I believe there is more goodness in the
w’orld today than ever before. I know that
interest in creeds is waning and religious
j partisanship is abating, but I believe the
world contains more of the essence of reli
gion now than ever in the past. And the
I essence of religion I take to be a conviction
of the sanctity of love, the sacredness of life,
the joy of existence and a due evaluation of
spiritual forces. “Modern doubt,” as some
one recently wrote, “is very largely a news
paper scare with disappointed magazine writ
ers for its paid agitators, and were a census
taken of'the happy people in this so/called
age of despair, the number I fear would be
I shamefully large.”
As mankind moved out of brutedom into
savagery and out of savagery into civiliza
tion, so it will move out of its present de
. structive confusions into a saner co-opera
■ tion.
As the world has swung out of the shadow,
of mediaevalism with its bellicose creeds and
i bugaboos of superstition, so it will move out
and away from its present lingering cruelties.
We have far to go toward the realm of
brotherhood, but we have come far already
and are still on our way.
Men are kinder one to another than in !
the days of slavery.
Men revere Avomen more than ever before
in the history of the world.
Homes are brighter, little children better
trained, the aged more tenderly’ cared for,
the sick and crippled and insane and crim
inal more humanely treated.
Looking back over the past I see one
shadow- alter another lifted from the earth.
Looking forward into the future I see the
sunshine mote and more triumphant.
The kingdom is coming. But it Is not
coining by the clamorous conquest of mili
tant oi canizations, not by socialistic schemes,
not by egotistic propaganda, but coming as
the light of dawn pours through the sky, as
the odor of the rosebud fills all the garden,
awakened, and hurries to the crib to see what
is amiss.
Facts such as these —awakening at a pre*
determined time, and selective responsivity to
■' sounds—make very plain that, in Delhoeuf’s
expressive phrase, “that heart never sleeps.”
In fact, on a basis solely of these curious
sleep occurrences it would be possible to work
out a persuasive argument for the spiritual, '
as contrasted with the material and mechan- ;
' ical, view’ of the nature of man.
(Copyright, 1923.) ‘
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN~BEECHER
What has gone before. — Althea Cros
by inherits a fortune on condition that
she marry before she is thirty-five.
She falls in love with handsome young
Dr. Peter Graham and marries him
without telling him about the condi
tion in the will. Eventually he hears
gossips discussing it and assumes she
married him to get possession of the
fortune. He becomes cool and she as
sumes he married her for her money.
She becomes very jealous of her hus
band’s attentions to Mrs. Ruth Wil
liams, a wealthy patient. Althea meets
Kenneth Moore and his gadety attracts
her. —Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER XXX
THAT whatever she did would react up
on Peter, Althea never thought, per
haps would not have cared she.
Could she have heard the whole of what
the distracted woman said she might not
have been so bitter. She did not know
that Williams had come home raving drunk
and had refused to allow’ her or anyone
to use the telephone, threatening the en
tire household; that she had stolen out,
taken a taxi and gone for Dr. Cobb, fear
ful her husband would harm himself or
others; that finding Dr. Cobb out of town
she turned to Peter, her own physician,
rather than let a stranger know her unhap
piness. But all Althea heard was that Peter
was “so kind”—when lie Avas not kind to
her. ,
Peter went out before M'iss How-ard
came in. When &he heard the nurse mov
ing about, Althea descended the stairs,
xvent into the private office and said:
Dr. Graham will not require your serv
ices any longer, Miss HoAvard. You may
go now, at once. Anything due you ho
will mail.”
Miss How-ard white as she raised
pleading eyes to Althea’s face.
“Is the doctor—?” She hesitated, look
ed again at Althea’s hard set face, then
quietly resumed her hat, picked up her
gloves and shabby purse and Avent slow-iy
out.
"There, that’s done!” Althea said, a feel
ing of triumph possessing her for a mo
ment, to z be folloAved by a frightened wave.
Would Peter be terribly angry? She de
cided htf couldn't be if she did the work.
She would almost sys willing to wear tha
nurse’s uniform if he wanted her to.
She took several messages, carefully
writing them down as she had seen Miss
Howard do. But there were one or two
calls asking about continuing certain medi
cines, another from a physician using terms
with which she was unfamiliar, words she
couldn’t spell, medical terms.
It was nearly noon Avhen Pgter cama
in. A quick glance, then he asked:
"Where’s Miss Howard?”
"She’s gone.”
••Gone —gone where? Any calls?”
"Yes, they are all here.” She handed
him the slip's upon which she had written
the messages. He read them, called up
one number, then turned to her and said:
“Now tell me. Where and why did Miss
Howard go? It doesn’t seem like her to
lehve me in the Irtrch like this. She
knows how busy I am.”
“I told her to go.” Althea’s voice was
steady, hut she was trembling. Face to
face with Peter, what she had done did
not seem so simple.
"You told her to go—sent her on an
errand? Well, she will soon be back but
I’m sorry you felt you had to take her
away from her work.”
"I didn’t send her on any errand. I sent
her away.. I will do her work for you.
Surely I am as capable of answering the
telephone and taking messages as she is.
And I won’t have her around.”
Peter stared, unbelieving, uncomprehend
ing.
"You mean that you discharged Miss
HOAvard —and without consulting, me?” his
voice growing hard as he looked in her
face.
"Yes. As I told you last night a AVife
has some rights, and I surely have the
right to say who shall compose the house
hold. I’ll do the same work for you, Pe
ter.’ You’ll not miss her- in that way.”
Her voice unconsciously pleading.
Peter’s face flamed with anger. The
veins stood out on his forehead. Althea
cringed a bit as she saw, but her attitude
never changed; she looked -steadily at him.
"I told her if you oAved her anything
you would mail it. You probably have her
address.”
"You dared—dared interfere in my work,”
Peter muttered, more to himself than to
her. The thing was monstrous. And whV
(had she done it? It couldn’t, he for econ
omy’s sake. He was making money, that
she knew.
He Avent to the telephone and called
a number.
"I want to speak to Miss Howard,” he
said.
A moment passed, then he spoke again:
"Miss Howard, please come right over
to the office. There has been a misunder
standing in my absence. Thank you. I
shall wait for you.”
"What do mean, Peter?” Albhea
asked. -"Why do you tell her there has been
a misunderstanding?”
"To save your pride. Unless she refuses
to remain after the insulting thing you have
done, I shall have her here at work again
at once.”
"You mean that you will take her back
after I have discharged her? After I have
offered to do her work?”
"If she will come—yes.”
"Then lam right! It is not an office as
sistant you want, but a girl to make love
to.” Althea swept out of the office leav
ing Peter staring after her in amazement.
"She doesn’t believe that, she can’t!” he
muttered. "And she wouldn’t care if it
were true,, except that it might hurt her
pride. She was crazy to discharge Miss
HoAvard. What can I say to the girl?”
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MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin Cobb
Fred Kelly went back to the scenes of his
Ohio boj-hood and hired a horse and buggy
to drive ’round familiar Spots.
As he was about to climb into the buggy a
negro came trotting across a lot, calling
Kelly by name. Kelly couldn’t remember
him at first, but the negro identified himself
as a boyhood playmate, and insisted Kelly
should drive him to a field where he had a
job cutting corn, explaining that if Kelly re
fused to do this he would lose his job.
"What makes you late?” Kelly.
"Oh, my wife’s sistah is visitin’ a,t our
house. She Avasn’t feelin’ very well an’ con's
over this maAvnin’ on the 8 o’clock car. They
thought she might get better at our house,
but she died about half an hour after she
come; so that kept me back frum gettin’ to
wu’k.”
"w'liat was the matter?” asked Kelly.
"Oh, seems lak she went to some sort of a
dance in Dayton night befo’ last an’ some
nigger over there got to wu'kin’ on her haid
wid a hatchet.”
(Copyright, 1923.)